North Chestnut Street School and William Whiting School (1910)
contains high school 1852 to 1862
William Whiting School was built in 1910 where the North Chestnut Street School stood. There was a playground along its side that functioned as a school and a city playground. Its name was Chestnut Street Playground and retained that name even after the 1910 new school was put in place.
To its north was the Emerald Fire Station which remained there until 1919. In 1977 Holyoke Catholic High School purchased the school and gradually turned it into their cafeteria and then their fourth building for classrooms.
Across the street from the school is the Quaker Meeting Home. It was only used as such for 10 years from 1856 to 1866.
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